This workshop will be held in a hybrid mode on April 4 from 9AM-6PM UK time (GMT+1)
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Detailed Schedule – Local Time in Edinburgh, UK (GMT+1)
9:00am-9:15am: Opening Remarks
9:15am-9:45am: Prof. Markus P. Nemitz
Design and Fabrication of Fluidically-Driven Soft Robots for Remote Education
9:45am-10:15am: Prof. Helmut Hauser
Leveraging Morphological Computation for Controlling Soft Robots
10:15am-10:45am: Prof. Robert K. Katzschmann
Rethink How We Control Soft Robots to Explore the World
10:45am-11:00am: Mini-Panel: Broader Impacts of Simplified Control for Soft Robots
11:00am-11:30am: Coffee and Networking Break
11:30am-12:00pm: Prof. Kohei Nakajima
Software Control and Embodied Intelligence
12:00pm-12:30pm: Dr. Philipp Rothemund
Soft Bistable Valves for Pressure-Based Feedback Control of Pneumatic Soft Robots
12:30pm-12:45pm: Mini-Panel: The Next Generation of Soft Control Elements
1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch Break
2:00pm-2:25pm: Prof. Ryan D. Sochol
3D Micro/Nanoprinting Integrated Fluidic Circuitry-Based Soft Robots
2:25pm-2:50pm: Prof. Ryan L. Truby
3D Printing Soft Sensorized Robots
2:50pm-3:00pm: Mini-Panel: 3D Printing for Smart Soft Robots
3:00pm-3:30pm: Prof. Siavash Ahrar
Pneumatic Computers for Embedded Control of Physical Systems
3:30pm-4:15pm: Lightning Talks (5 minutes each followed by Q&A)
Colter Decker (Harvard & Rice University)
Kevin McDonald (Boston University)
Dr. Anoop Rajappan (Rice University)
Lucas C. “Luuk” van Laake (AMOLF)
Sihan Wang (Oxford Robotics Institute)
4:15pm-4:30pm: Coffee and Networking Break
4:30pm-5:00pm: Prof. Michael T. Tolley
Locomotion Control with Electronics-Free Pneumatic Circuits
5:00pm-5:20pm: Prof. Katia Bertoldi
Mechanical Valves for On-Board Flow Control of Inflatable Robots
5:20pm-5:40pm: Prof. Adam A. Stokes
Soft Robotics: Embodied Intelligence and Fluidic Logic
5:40pm-5:55pm: Mini-Panel: Embodied Intelligence through Fluidic Control
5:55pm-6:00pm: Closing Remarks